DE1930482A1 - Device for aligning and locking transport containers on vehicles - Google Patents

Description

Cyril Edward Charles Erith and Gordon Charles ELkins, 7 St. John's Avenue, Ohurohdown, Gloucester, England

Device for aligning and locking transport containers on vehicles

The invention relates to a device for aligning and locking transport containers on vehicles or other receiving devices for transport containers. The use of containers or transport containers for the transport of freight is now widespread and is increasing every day, especially in international freight transport, with transport containers built according to I, SiQ. Standards. In this form! Not only are the sizes and external dimensions ä »r standard container Committed _t but also the shape you applied corner formations. New and converted vehicles and vehicle trailers now have devices at corresponding points that mesh with appropriately designed corners on the underside of the container. Align and lock the containers in this way.

A device according to the invention for aligning and locking of transport containers for vehicles has a connection

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body for mounting on a vehicle, in which an alignment body for transport containers is housed, from the upper end of which the head of a rotatable locking pin protrudes, which is housed in the alignment body. Ser bolt is moveable by hand between a free and a locked position. The alignment body is within the housing between two stages displaceable, preferably an upper stage, the corresponds to an alignment position in which the body over the Housing protrudes, and a lower step, which corresponds to a retracted position, namely under the upper upper « area of the connection body. The connector body is on one side for engagement with the adjacent side of the alignment body designed to keep the latter in the alignment position to hold on. In addition, there is a device for holding on of the alignment body opposite the mentioned side of the connection body present, which has the task of engaging the alignment body to maintain and which can be operated by hand, do the alignment body to loosen for> a shift within the connector body between an alignment position and a withdrawn position.

This engagement of the two bodies is preferably brought about through an incision or an opening within the connecting body, the opening being brought into single engagement with a projection on the adjacent side of the aligning body. The projection preferably has the shape of a rectangular block f consist of GuS .in Ausführungeformen preferred, however, a steel structure is provided with a rear wall which serves for connection lind in ä & r check is an opening that fits to the projection of the alignment.

Brain Votriclitung, which serves to hold the alignment body »has in a preferred embodiment the shape of a locking bar or a rod that is in

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horizontal direction and to the side of the alignment body extends. This rod or this rod is brought into a lower locking position as a result of its gravity and can be brought into an upper rest position by hand, in which the rod has a corresponding clearance for the alignment body leaves so that it is detached from the rear wall and withdrawn can be. For this reason, the device has the shape of a rod and is displaceable in essentially vertical slots in the side walls of the connection body. The slots are preferably of increasing width at the upper ends to allow for a suitable clearance to ensure retraction of the alignment body. As an alternative solution it can also be provided that to the For the same purpose, inclined slots of constant width can be used.

According to another solution, the device which is used to hold the alignment body can also be a locking shaft include, which works like an eccentric and with the ' Alignment body comes into singriff on the opposite side. This locking shaft is rotatable such that they can assume a rest position or an unlocked position in which there is sufficient play for. a movement of the Alignment body is present, which is sufficient to the Riegelvorsprmng to release from the associated opening, or to disengage that device that is in otherwise used for the engagement, so that the displacement of the alignment body to a retracted position is possible. The bolt usually has a handle that extends horizontally at its lower end Direction extends. Even if a separate locking shaft with its own handle or a locking bar is preferably used is to be, the arrangement can be chosen in a different way so that a mode of operation with only one hand handle is possible. In this case a rotation of the

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Bolt hand ^ rifft t'l ti rotatable cams that the alignment body to one side of the connection body and into a solid one Singriff .with this is pressed.

If such a C-locking shaft is used, this is it preferably arranged in a horizontal position, the Coordinated handle is located on one end, also is a spring-loaded locking device is provided, which holds the - "rush either in the Auhe- or in the locked position. The eccentric fat = _tigun /? S; veise can thereby be brought about that a projecting, plate-like rib is provided which extends in the longitudinal direction and in the radial direction Direction of the '"' hurry protruding. The - ^ p err shaft and the bolt are preferably both provided with handles that are in the rest position or. horizontal in the unlocked position Extend from the connection body, on this one

visually perceptible display ^ u form that / are not in / * them are in the locked position.

The alignment body, the bolt and the locking handles are preferably completely detachable from-de-a connection body, and as a central 3insati. Su to this end they let themselves preferably pull it out at the bottom of the connector body. This means that the center operations when the vehicle is used for conventional purposes, i.e. H. not for carriage used by containers, removed and placed on another vehicle designed to to serve as a transporter for containers, so that not all Vehicles necessarily come with a full set of the aforementioned devices must be equipped. In addition, the connection body is made in a very simple manner Cast or otherwise can be made in a cheap way of manufacturing, so that they are for this reason as Standard equipment from the manufacturer can be attached, while the center inserts are only available on Y / Un for one

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new vehicle or delivered as an accessory at a later date will. The design according to the invention also shows the advantage that their construction does not have any 'Yasser or dirt

or can become clogged or otherwise impaired, since the connection body can easily be created in such a way that sufficient spaces can be provided for rainwater to drain and dirt to fall through, even when the center inserts are in their retracted position . '.Venn nevertheless penetrate any dirt, they can be removed with a wire brush lightly, "eun the stakes are taken down.

The side of the connection body that has an opening for single grip with the. '/ Orsprung of the alignment body is provided in order to hold the latter in the alignment position, provided that these engagement conditions are selected, preferably has a second opening which is used to hold the alignment body in the retracted position. This opening can be created by making a cutout on the upper hand of the rear wall and forming it for a single grip with the head of the bolt when the! It th a sat ζ slides down from the alignment position with the head in the locked position and after the latch shaft or the latch rod are brought into the rest position. With a construction of this type, the alignment in the retracted position is preferably assisted by an engagement of the projection of the alignment body below the string of the alignment body which has the opening _. w "4""kali" IeII-ä4e-S ## aw »g-awfso that the insert, when the latter is withdrawn, fall Jatt down and can completely dissolve _f by reacting, in the rest position ~ or '' in the bolt brings the unlocked position.

If so desired, a device can be provided

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which prevents the TS insert from being removed from the rest position in an "ev / e ^ ua ^", whereby the thread shaft olei ^v moves the boot bar and the locking bolt into the rest position. Such a device prevents unintentional loosening or accidental falling out of the insert during the journey. In a preferred embodiment, the device detects a support that the handle strikes when it is in the rest position before the insert is sufficiently tilted within the connector body. .ground '-ana, in order to bring the projection of the alignment cUrj-er out of engagement with the relevant opening. According to another solution, an opening can be provided in the connecting body for this purpose, which strikes the head of the locking bolt, so that the insert is lowered and the bolt is in its unlocked position Location is located.

The alignment body preferably has the shape of a flattened cylinder, ie a shape with concentric and partly cylindrical opposite sides, which are connected to one another by two parallel and flat lands. The head of the bolt preferably has an elongated, gable-shaped "esialtunf;" which corresponds exactly to the described shape of the alignment body and since it is aligned in the rest position or in the unlocked position as it does in the right- hand part in the Unlocked position.

The invention is illustrated below with the aid of an exemplary embodiment explained in more detail with reference to the drawings. In the drawings show:.

Figure 1 _e is a Vorderansieiit a erfindungsgeisäSeri Yorriclitungj.

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reef. FIG. 2 is a side view, partly in section, along FIG Line H-II of Figure 1;

3 shows a plan view of the device: according to FIGS. 1 and 2;

4 shows a view of the device from below;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the device with an alignment and locking insert in its retracted position.

Toward connector 1, referred to below as "housing" Besug .vird, consists of a steel back wall 2 which is welded to an upper seat plate 3 and to two spaced-apart Seitenpbtten 4, which do not extend over the entire depth of the liück.vand 2 and which are also offset inward from the sides of the latter at a distance. Sia I'itteneinsatz- 5 is slidable "the side plates 4 and v / eist an aligning body 6 from the shape of a flattened cylinder on a" rush 7a of a Drehbolsens 7 _f is fully extends through the aligning body 6 and stored therein between. A flat side band 8 of the alignment body 6 (cf. FIGS. 2 and 4) rests on the rear wall 2 and has a projection 9 which extends outward at a right angle and which engages in a lower opening 10 in the rear wall 2 In this way, the!

The bolt 7 has a head or a hammer 7b which extends above the alignment body 6 and a gable-like Has a shape that corresponds exactly to the shape of the alignment body and therefore ensures an aligned position

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performs when the alignment body is in the unlocked position, as shown in the drawings. An operating handle 12, which is connected to the lower part of the bolt shaft 7a, extends horizontally from there and in the right-hand angle to the rear wall 2 in the unlocked position, whereby a visible indication of its respective position is given. The handle 12 extends diametrically through a sleeve 13 'which is mounted on the bolt shaft 7a and which is in engagement with the underside of the alignment body 6 for an axial fixing of the bolt J. A spring-loaded locking ball 14 (see. Fig. 1), which is arranged in a radial bore 15 in the vicinity of the lower part of the alignment body 6, is pressed as a result of the spring pressure in the direction of the pin shaft 7a and can be with one of three on Perimeter of the 7 / el-Ie attached recesses 16 are brought into single engagement in order to hold the bolt 7 in the central rest position or in one of the two locking positions, which are each offset by 90 ° with respect to the unlocked position. The locking position of the bolt head Tb is indicated in Fig. 2 with dash-dotted lines.

The center insert 5 is held against the rear wall 2 by means of a round locking bar 17. The locking bar 17 extends horizontally and through essentially vertically extending slots 18 in the side plates 4. At each projecting end of the locking bar 17 there is a radial flange 19 which is formed by a welded-on sleeve. In this rod shape, the locking rod is fixed in the housing. The rod 17 has a tight fit at the lower ends of the slots 18, to which the rod reaches as a result of its gravity in order to bring about the locking position shown in the drawings. The fit in the lower ends of the slot is sometimes tight, but allows the rod to be moved by hand. * In this locking position, the rod 17 is in engagement with the adjacent Geite 20 of the alignment body 6, thereby

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to press the alignment body against the rear wall 2 and here- • by the singular engagement of the projection Q in the opening 10. The upper ends of the slots 18 have a increasing width, the further they move away from the rear wall 2, as can be clearly seen from FIG. This creates a asymmetrical keyhole-like shape of the slots brought about. The rod 17 can ν on hand in the enlarged ends 18a of the slots are lifted to bring the rod to the rest position or to bring the unlocked position.

The seat plate 3 has an opening 22 in the shape of a cross which allows a sliding fit for the alignment body along one axis and a passage for the bolt 7b along the other axis when the center insert 5 slides downward, the bolt 7 being in is in the locked position. The rear wall 2 has an upper edge opening 23 which is open at the top. If the insert 5 slides down with the bolt 7 in the locked position, the hammer or head 7b passes through the seat plate 3 and comes into engagement with the lower edge of the rear wall opening 231, whereby the insert 5 is in the retracted position In order to allow such a movement of the insert 5, the locking bar 17 is first raised to its rest position, ie up to the ends 18a of the slots 18. This movement gives such play that the insert 5 can be moved inside the housing 1 can tilt sufficiently so that the projection 9 can be disengaged from the opening 10, whereupon the insert 5 can fall down into the retracted position In this position, shown in Figure 4, the projection 9 is below the rear wall 2 with this in engagement, and the insert 5 is held as soon as you let go of the locking bar 17 and this under the action of the • gravity ft returns to its locked position.

There is a device provided that the center insert

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must be lowered inside the housing t while the bolt 7 is in a locked position. It is thereby achieved that any suitability for the insert slipping out unintentionally or being accidentally removed, for example if the bolt head 7b has been lowered until it engages in the opening 23 of the rear wall. In such cases the device prevents the insert 5 from being pulled out downwards. In addition .virl prevents the bolt 7 from being turned back into the unlocked position before the insert 5 has been lifted to bring the head 7b into an area above the housing 24 in the form of a strip of steel inserted horizontally across the front of the GeMuses 1 directly above the pole handle 12. This rod weiet hochbegobene Sndteile 25 which are welded to the inner sides of Geitenplatten 4, "'hen an attempt is made, the insert 5 jQi t of the screw 7 in its unlocked position to lower, that is, when the handle 12 in the right', Yinkel protrudes from the rear wall 2 below the safety rod 24, the handle hits the safety rod 24 'before the insert 5 could be tilted sufficiently within the housing 1 to allow the projection to detach from the opening 10 of the rear wall 2.' Term However, if the handle 12 is brought into a locked position on one side or the other, it is no longer below the sealing bar 24, and the necessary tilting movement of the center insert 5 _f, which enables the latter to move downwards, is not hindered .

It should be noted that the embodiment described provides a construction in which the presence of the securing rod 24 is completely fixed Insert 5 creates which cannot be removed, although it does is fully retractable if so desired,

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If, on the other hand, it is desired that the kit contains a sat ζ '% . ■■ · "can be removed, while the safety rod 24 still prevents unintentional loosening by the fact that the" pinsat "5 must be lowered with the EoIaen 7 located in the locked position, this can be achieved, for example, with two possibilities ./ According to the first, the components are dimensioned so that the kitten insert 5 with the bolt 7 in the locked position can be partially lowered and so that, while the bolt head 7b is still above the upper part of the housing 1, there is sufficient clearance below of the locking bar 24 is present in order to rotate the handle into the unlocked position, while the insert 5 is still in its tilted position within the housing. When the bolt 7 has returned to its unlocked position, the insert can The second way to create a removable insert is to use a ger Slight modification is that the upper opening 24 in the rear wall 2 is made sufficiently wide, at least to achieve a suitable position to allow the bolt head 7b to rotate into the unlocked position after the insert 5 has been inserted into the Housing 1 is lowered with the bolt 7 in a locked position.

In addition to the obvious benefits of a center insert 5, which on V / not can be completely removed, but not unintentionally or accidentally, and also cannot fall out by itself, and which is held in the retracted position (see. Fig. 5) within a housing through which water and dirt can freely pass and as a result cannot collect there, the described device has a further advantage in that that the bolt shaft 7a within the alignment body 6 in is taken substantially over its entire length. Here-

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'by being an extraordinarily high' ate in tensile and compressive strength and in terms of buckling resistance, especially since you have a V / elle 7a of large diameter can use. Sin grease nipple insert 25, which is provided on the alignment body 5, provides a simultaneous lubrication not only of the pin shaft 7a, but also the locking device 14 which is placed under spring pressure.

The vertical play of the projection 9 within the opening 10 of the rear wall, which in Tig. 2 is also used to support the uit dem linsata. 5 shows a vertical shift when this is in the alignment and locking position. In its xu.-orientated position, the BoI 2 en head Jh has an exact space opposite the seat plate 3 for connection to a corner support of a standard container . 35 ^ n to be liftable. As a result, it is possible that the transport vehicles, when they drive over uneven curses, can bend, without the knowledge that inadmissibly high stresses are acting on the vehicle or on the container. This feature is of particular importance for a container transporter in which the alignment or locking devices are not attached to a flat Vagenbahn but rather to a boom. Another advantage of the construction described is that it is symmatiifoh sufgelavi with regard to the center line. eats at right angles to the back wall. Therefore, the position of the components is not tied to "right" or "left", and the same device can be used on both sides of a vehicle.

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Claims (1)

Patent sayings; J 1./Vorrichtung for aligning IMD locking of transport V- 'containers on vehicles, characterized et gekennze ichn that a terminal body 1 is provided for connection to the respective vehicle within which the position of a respective transport container-defining AusrichtkörperC6) is , from the upper end of which a head (7b) of an operating bolt (7) extends, which is arranged within the alignment body (6), the bolt (7) can be rotated by hand between a locked and an unlocked position and the alignment body (6) is movable within the connection body (1) between two stages, of which the upper stage provides an alignment position in which the alignment body (6) is above the connection body (1), while in the lower stage a retracted position below the surface of the connection body (1) is provided, the connection body (1) on one side in engagement with the adjacent side of the alignment body (6) for holding the l The latter is formed in the alignment position and a device (4, 17, 18) is provided which serves to press the alignment body (6) in the direction of the wall (2) of the connection body (1), thereby engaging between the Viand (2) and the alignment body (6) and which is manually operable to release the alignment body (6) for movement within the connector body (1) between an alignment and a retracted position. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that that the engagement of the connection body (1) and. of . Alignment body (9) through an opening (10) in the rear wall (2) ^ of the connection body (1) and by a corresponding one Projection (9) is provided on the alignment body (6). 909881/1030 _{ßAD 0R1G1NAU} . -H- - 14 - 3. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in ρ e k e η η, da: 3 der / orsprunp (9) as a rectangular one Block is formed. 4. The apparatus: records according to claim 2 or 3 »characterized ρ Eke η η, da3 of AnachluSkorper (1) is made of steel with a Rück.vand (2) which serves for connection and which accommodates the recess or opening (10). 5. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the Device for holding the Ausrichtkü.rpers (6) comprises a locking rod or a Cperrstab (17), which horizontally as far as the side of your alignment body (6) extends and under the effect of gravity into one lower locking lever arrives as well as by hand in one upper Tiuhelage can be raised, in which a sufficiently large Game is available on the alignment body (6) of to loosen the clamping element with the connection body (1) and to withdraw him from this. 6. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterized marked eichn e t that the rod (17) is movable in slots (18) which have an increasing width at their upper ends (I8a) exhibit. 7. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that the rod (17) in slots (18) constant width is movable, which is upward in opposite Direction from the connection body (1) seen are inclined Device according to claim 4 and 6 or 7, characterized characterized in that side plates (4) are provided are, between which the alignment body (6) vjiter- 90988Ί / 1030 - 15 - BAD ORKSlNAt is brought and in which the Cchlitze 18 are formed. 9. The device according to claim S, characterized geke η η 2 eic 1: net, since "the ütange (17) Sndf lan see (13) on, veit: t, through which the Cta ^ e (17) -cegenül> er ^ ^{e: i} -side plates (4) fesL-t iat. 1C. Device: according to one or more of claims 1 V-is 4, dadui'cli, ^r e 'l e η η ζ eieh η et, that the to: hold on the Äut, Richt!: I.Jr] iers (C ) provided device; comprises a rotatable "iieri'.velle" which "virkt" in the manner of an eccentric and grasps the alignment body (6) on the side, which is brought about by the r.Un. 1) removed, runs. 11. DeviceUii ^; according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that _; jeke η η shows that the 3p err bolt (7) has a "handle (12) which extends horizontally at the lower end of the bolt (7). 12. Device according to one or more of the preceding claims 1 to 4 and 11, characterized in that the handle has a rotatable cam in such a way acts that the alignment body (6) on one side of the connection body (1) and in one for fixing the same appropriate engagement with the body is brought about. 13. Apparatus according to claim 10 and 11, characterized in that g e k e η η Z: e i c h η e t that the locking shaft and the locking bolt have different operating handles, both of which protrude in the horizontal direction from the connection body (1) to give a visible indication that / themselves / * they are not in the locked position. 909881/1030 ^{BAD or} '^ nal -16-' 14. Device according to A.UM »ruch 2 bir. 4, thereby geke η η draws, da.a the and det. Terminal body (1), the "opening (10), / eist, a second ί opening (23) receives, as the ^ u is used, the -en Ausriehtkürper (C) in the retracted position fixed. Ale _t. 15. Device according to claim 14, characterized in that f e Ic e η η draws to bring the second opening (23) into engagement with the pot (7b) of the locking pin (?) is, .ϊβηη of the alignment body (C) is withdrawn, while the col ^ en (7) is in the locked position is located. 16. The apparatus of claim 14 or 15, characterized marked that then align in retracted position due to the engagement of the projectionö (9) below the: i connector body (1) supported will. t j 17. Device according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the alignment body (C), the oerrbolzen (7) and the locking handle (12) bzv ». the hand as a whole is complete are removable from the connection body (1). 18. The device according to claim 17, characterized in that "when.! Removing the insert (5) the same from or through the bottom of the connection body (1) falls through. 19 · The apparatus of claim 1 S, characterized ge ke η η ζ eic et hn, that a device is provided _r prevents that the insert (5) in a single motion is removable. 909881/1030 BAD OfWCHNAL 20. "Device according to deu claims 11 aud 1-, thereby r eke nn 2 calibration 11 e I, since: 3 years of Einsät · '(S) in ■">-; η Aiituhlu.vkürper (1) ..urüc'c /. is visible,., en i f.ich Jer "'/ -errtollen (7) is in the locked La ^ e -m \ 1 .veriu Jer ΓορΓ (7b) dec "iolzeiiü (7) J ^ it de.» AMSuhluilcCrper (i) .iu ¹ ^ Peüthalten des. ^ Insatues ■ ([>) in '] in: riXT felanrt, and the device that eixi vollsfüidirrea "ujtfernen des lüinsat ^ eo (5) iflit one a, -i _; ^r en. 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